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dugout

[duhg-out] / ˈdʌgˌaʊt /
NOUN
hollowed area
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Bendix explained why the Marlins believe calling pitches from the dugout will benefit them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

As a Single-A manager, he was responsible for lugging a printer onto the team bus and restocking the ink so he could have scouting reports in the dugout.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

He became adept at stalling tactics that gave pitchers ample rest if they’d just returned to the dugout after running the bases.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

At 3-0, in the dugout, Clarke's assistant Steven Naismith was having certain thoughts.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Once, when I was little, I yelled at her for smashing a dugout I’d constructed out of cardboard and my mom didn’t speak to me for a month.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko




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